Ignite Your Passion for Writing

You don't need to write alone

Writing in English in a sea of Hebrew can feel isolating, with few avenues for honing craft, experimenting with genre, and meeting local writers writing in English.

​Receive feedback, encouragement, and support

WriteSpace Jerusalem offers community and a wide array of quality writing workshops and masterclasses showcasing talented writers from Israel and abroad, with a view to nurturing English-language writing in Israel.

Expand your knowledge of craft, explore other genres

Choose areas of interest, from fiction, poetry,memoirtochildren's literature and educational writing to build a program tailored to your needs.

What participants say about our workshops and masterclasses...

'Being in a space with other writers, people who give priority to writing in their lives, is a rare gift.' - S.G.

'I encourage you to take advantage of what WriteSpace Jerusalem has to offer. You'll be giving yourself a gift you richly deserve.' - R.E.

'I must tell you how excited I am about WriteSpace Jerusalem. I've published before and have a writing group, but the ongoing support of this diverse writing community is just what I need for my creative/memoir pieces. It's simply wonderful that English writing voices join together for this.' - R.W.

'​As always, a big thank you to Nadia for facilitating the workshop. Your knack for knowing who and what will motivate writers in formation repeatedly astounds.' - P.T.

Since participating in the workshops I have been introduced to a flourishing community of creative English writers in Israel, in which WriteSpace Jerusalem plays a central role.' - A.A.

Free Events

Want to work on your writing project surrounded by other writers?Night Writers Jerusalem meets the first Thursday of the month. We write for 50 min, break for 15 minutes (to meet fellow writers and eat some nosh), then repeat until it ends. You can come for as long or as short a time as you like.

In honour of National Novel Writing Month in November (NaNoWriMo), we will be meeting every Thursday in November (1, 8, 15, 29) 20:00-23:50 (Nov 22 - 20:30-23:50). Join the group and check the Facebook events page for updates.

The Ilanot Review is an international creative writing journal based in Israel, publishing a variety of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and genres in between. Read the "Fiction Only" issue here, and consider submitting your work!

​Discover the essence of your storySharpen the elements of your writing to make it stand outHeighten the emotional impact of your work

​This workshop is aimed at advanced writers who are currently working on short stories or memoir, and want to push their craft to the next level. Each session will open with an in-depth reading and critique of the participants' work, and together we will explore ways to revise and develop work, with a view towards publication. In-class writing exercises will be offered to aid participants in honing specific skills.

This course will include information on how to present and submit your work to magazines and competitions.

​What liberties can we take in writing about our own past, our families, our hometowns?

​How might including fictive elements in autobiographical writing (provided we make clear to our readers when we stray from nonfiction) make possible realizations otherwise unavailable?

Do we read and write dialogue, scene, and character differently in memoir than in fiction? How might memoir allow us meditative opportunities that fiction may make difficult? Does genre make a difference?